foreign speakers

Presents a variety of perspectives that allows students to better understand and navigate the issue of English language learners.

Provides K-12 teachers with a wide range of practical strategies to help them promote literacy and language development in English language learners. Includes software with printable activities and worksheets.

Explains how to teach English as a second language within the regular curriculum, showing how to incorporate reading and writing into content areas, scaffolding language- and content-learning.

Provides fifty strategies for teaching English as a second language including vocabulary and comprehension builders, communication games and cooperative learning activities, and more.

Challenges common beliefs about bilingual education and discusses factors in the education of young second language learners, covering demographics, political and legal issues, teacher qualifications, language instruction theories, and teaching methods and programs.